dotmpe/arduino repository overview

Finally a CLI for the Arduino toolchain, and in a container too. ⁠

⁠Info

Testing some base-images for different Linux distros, maybe to pick one already cached by docker. Though with Alpine there is little need to fuss about size: just a few 10s of megabytes.

The AVR-GCC toolchain does not run with Musl libc, so the official Alpine is out. But there is frolvlad/alpine-glibc github⁠.

There are some missing packages that arduino installs itself (into ~/.arduino15/packages/builtin/tools): ctags, serial-discovery. This is also where the support for different boards go. Like the ~/Arduino folder (with libraries) it is kept outside of the image (ie. in a volume).

⁠:alpine ⁠

⁠:minideb ⁠

⁠:debian-slim ⁠

⁠:debian ⁠

⁠:ubuntu ⁠

⁠:centos ⁠

⁠:fedora ⁠

Usage:

  docker run -ti --rm --name arduino --device /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0 \
    -v $HOME/.arduino15:/home/arduino/.arduino15 \
    -v $HOME/Arduino:/home/arduino/Arduino \
    dotmpe/arduino:alpine \
    help

⁠Desiderata

The Alpine/glibc image is working for my AVR/Atmega328p needs so far. Every package but curl and certificates has been removed from the images, idk. if those (make, git) are needed somewhere.

The fedora and centos images have permission issues on the USB tty device, but I'm not too experienced with RH-based OS; its probably some apparmor thing?

Maybe should add sudo, or cleanup sudoers stuff.

The Docker hub build is fairly long, would be nice to split up to branches. And add version numbers to keep older versions. Also Hub does not want to run tests the way I set it up now.

Might want to test with proper docker volumes iso. mounts.

Also up for build/test is a golang based install.

⁠Autobuilds

See customized highlander-build hooks⁠ for tags. The latest tag is put on the Alpine image.

⁠Docs

See wiki⁠ at github, or local docs directory.